An Old Sweetheart of Mine

The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN. 1902. Hardcover. No date on title page. First copyright to James Whitcomb Riley -- 1888, 1899, 1902; Copyright 1902 to the Bowen-Merrill Company, just a year before it was to become the Bobbs-Merrill Company. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for gift inscription on the first blank page from 1910. Book Condition: Very Good; light head, tail, and tip wear from shelving. No DJ. Green decorative cloth boards and spine with gilt lettering on spine and front board; red roses in floral patters on spine and front board; pictorial centerpiece pastedown. Endpapers have Riley's note of An Old Sweetheart of Mine for the verses; Christy has With Studies From Life for his illustrations. Hinges are sound and not cracked. Interior is clean. Heavy card stock pages. Non-paginated 8vo. This is a poem by Riley in which he fascinates about his sweetheart from childhood to elderly only to find it is a dream and he wakes to find his wife there- his sweetheart. A clean very presentable copy.…